The comprehensive Workshop was attended by 11 participants
who had been selected through an extensive FIBA-sanctioned online test. The
purpose of the Workshop is to train, conduct tests and strengthen the knowledge
of basketball statisticians in Singapore with the objective of improving the
technical aspects of the sport.

Mr Mawloud touched on the definitions and many relevant
examples of interpretation of certain actions during a live game into the stats
sheet on the first day. Participants were first introduced to some of major
upcoming FIBA tournaments. Next, participants are given clips of scenarios of
real games, and then discuss among groups the calls of actions of Stats Manual.

On the second day, participants are introduced to
Statisticians Operations and followed by introduction to FIBA Live Stats and
Digital Scoresheet. Participants were finally given a Statistics Test successful
participants who passed the Test will be officially certified by FIBA
(renewable bi-annually through a short online test).

Mr Leong Chuen Wing, one of the candidates to participate in
the workshop, had expressed that the workshop on the first day was ‘intensive
and very enriching; Mr Mawloud is able to explain key and complicated concepts
through a hands-on approach to engage and demonstrate the challenges faced by
statisticians during live games’. Along with the participants, Mr Leong feels
that overall; the workshop will be helpful and useful for the work of
statisticians.

Lastly, BAS would like to thank all the participants for
their time and Mr Maarouf for the meaningful workshop conducted and sharing his
expertise to improve the technical aspects of Basketball in Singapore!